State Of The Backcountry

Winter Wildlands Alliance (WWA) is a national nonprofit organization promoting and preserving winter wildlands and a quality human-powered snowsports experience on public lands. For years the WWA has worked to see that snowmobiles play by the same rules as other ...

This is the last formal report for the 2013-2014′ ski season. Say what? You thought ski season was over months ago? Not in the high Rocky Mountains of Colorado. It’s full on summer from coast-to-coast, but that doesn’t mean there’s ...

Coming at you live and direct from the Grand Teton, JHMR summer Tram, Teton Pass and the Gros Ventre Wilderness. This edition of “State of the Backcountry” comes to you from the Jackson Hole area where the bounty of a ...

Happy to share my State of the Backcountry Sierra Nevada based report with the fine folks over at Earn Your Turns. It’s the heart of spring across the American West and the mountains are going off! In Tahoe, just about ...

For the past several years I have contributed to CleanSnipe as a staff writer through its blog known as The Deal. CleanSnipe offers trip reports and stories on backcountry skiing, surfing, rock climbing-essentially anything related to having fun in the outdoors. However, ...

A fun piece about skiing the seven continents with CanalFreeski. FOTOS: Brennan Lagasse Esquiar y viajar. Viajar y esquiar. Probablemente dos de los verbos que transmiten dos de las acciones que más nos gusten. Y probablemente dos de los verbos ...

Black Diamond Equipment (BD) makes just about every piece of ski gear you need to get into the backcountry, and get home safely. As the Tahoe area BD Ski Ambassador, three of my favorite pieces of BD gear that I ...

Writer Devon O’Neil captures a piece of the 2013 PNH Tour Camp season. We picked up more than 20 feet of new snow over the course of our 2013 season. Our man Wes-Slay Stomp-Son had endured the “Cordova Snowpocalypse” of ...